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I am disappointed that letter writer Julie Lewin feels she has to call into question the integrity of the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection [March 14, "Pheasants Over Kids"]. The DEEP is an underappreciated and underfunded asset for our state, responsible for protecting our environmental quality, state parks and forests while helping to facilitate camping, boating, fishing and hunting. The state pheasant stocking program is almost fully funded by the pheasant tag fees and the sale of hunting licenses. The cost to the state is a fraction of the entire program budget. Of the birds that are not harvested by hunters, Lewin is correct that they...

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I am disappointed that letter writer Julie Lewin feels she has to call into question the integrity of the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection [March 14, "Pheasants Over Kids"].
The DEEP is an...

HARTFORD — The stark choices lawmakers are facing as they prepare to deal with budget deficits were made brutally clear Monday in discussions about Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposed reductions in programs for state parks, fish hatcheries and pheasant...

Bless the house cleaner for turning your 2,400-square-foot debris field into a tidy home twice a month. It gets better: If you've paid the hard-working home-saver more than $1,900 in a calendar year, you also qualify for a tax break.
That assumes, of...

Until the 1980s, if you tried buying a pair of blue jeans, a place setting of flow blue china or a blue racer snake in Connecticut on a Sunday, you would likely have found yourself singing the blues. State law kept most stores shuttered. Though many...

HARTFORD – Although Gov. Dannel Malloy is getting praise for big-ticket environmental items in his new budget, like $378 million for clean water funding, some of his spending cuts are infuriating hunters, anglers and state park advocates.
Malloy is...

The editorial "Protect the Gun Law" [Feb. 3] is riddled with flawed thinking. Seeking evidence for the unsupported claim that the 2013 gun control legislation made the state safer, the editorialattempts to draw a connection to declining...

The 18th annual Northeast Fishing & Hunting Show runs Friday through Sunday at the Connecticut Convention Center, 100 Columbus Blvd., Hartford.
The show features hundreds of booths showcasing the latest products, more than 50 hours of seminars by...

WASHINGTON — Newtown activists on Thursday helped introduce the first gun safety bill in this Congress, officially kicking off the gun control debate on Capitol Hill.The bill would ban large capacity ammunition clips for everyone but military members...

STORRS – A few notes, quotes, thoughts from UConn’s win over Bryant to start the season.
No need for hand-wringing yet. UConn won going away, outscoring Bryant 38-16 over the last 15 minutes or so, and UConn was shorthanded.
There is...

As of Wednesday, it is legal for permit holders in Connecticut to hunt deer with a shotgun on state land and with a rifle on private lands of more than 10 acres with the owner's permission, according to state officials.
There are 17 designated...

EAST HADDAM — Anthony DeNicola is a professional and proficient deer-killer.
DeNicola estimates he's been responsible for the deaths of about 10,000 deer since he began his Connecticut-based nonprofit wildlife control company in 1995. He's also been...

As stated in Monday's paper Anthony DeNicola is a hired killer and he appears to very proud of his efficient and humane killing of deer or for that matter any other animal he was hired to kill [Oct. 27, Page 1, "The Business Side Of A Deer...

The Patriots meet up with old friend Adam Vinatieri Sunday when they play Indianapolis. Hard to believe he has been gone from New England since 2005. He spent 10 seasons with the Patriots and is in his ninth season with the Colts. He has 468 career...

CANTON – A 50-year old Plainville man suffered a broken leg and injuries to his back and head after he fell 25 feet while attempting to climb to a tree stand while hunting Thursday morning. The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection...

AVON — Philip Pockoski, an avid sportsman and the founder of the Sportsmen's Den in Bristol and The Gunnery in Canton, died September 21. He was 85.Pockoski was born in Killingly in 1928 and was raised in Willimantic. At age 17, he joined the U.S....

Three hours to go in the legislative session. I come back to the state Capitol, and the first person I see is Chris Healy, former Republican state chairman.
"It's Gig Young time!" we yell simultaneously. This is an old joke between us dating...

In some ways, Israel Putnam defied the image of a classic American hero.
Stout, if not fat, he was unreserved, a man of many words who reveled in racy ballads and rum-fueled stories. He was also a farmer from Connecticut, a state with few pedestals in...

GLASTONBURY — It was a creature that let out "blood curdling yells at night." It was described as witnesses who saw it as a large dog with a cat-like face. Small dogs disappeared or were found mutilated along with goats and sheep.
And so the...

The editorial "Mr. Walker For No. 2 Spot" [Aug. 2] slams Penny Bacchiochi's well-thought-out and responsible no vote on the rushed 2013 gun control bill. Even though my sons have run against her in past elections, she should be given honest...

Boston is a typical English town — ancient church, traditional shops, Polish supermarkets, Baltic bakeries. Amid the bargain-hunting crowds on market day, eastern European languages are almost as common as the local Lincolnshire accent. Immigration has...